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Iit alums, look what they've done to your campus. they've spit in mies's eye with two recent additions: helmut jahn's quonset-hut dorms just north of 35th st., and at 33rd, the squashed-under-the-el-tracks student center designed by rem koolhaas. its peculiar design necessitated the building of a huge sound-deadening tube around the entire el structure where it passes overhead.
the neighborhoods north and south of campus are pretty much as they were -- bleak. vacant lots and more vacant lots. in bronzeville, the one blues club has moved to hyde park. the one big change: condos are going up at the southwest corner of 35th and state, on the site of the cha's former stateway gardens. there's only one old, vacant highrise left. and police headquarters has moved from 11th and state to 35th and michigan; its parking lot spills under the el tracks all the way to state street.
still not a good idea to walk north or south of campus, unless you've got your game face on.
by the way, did you know that iit is now in dorothy tillman's ward? but fear not; you can bet that her office returns iit administration's phone calls.
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